This is a rare ground floor opportunity to help shape a growing specialist consultancy where your expertise, judgement and leadership will directly influence industry standards used by thousands of Australian businesses.
Our client is a small close-knit team of highly experienced professionals with decades of specialist experience working with Australian businesses in trade, industry bodies and regulatory authorities. With expertise spanning law, workplace relations, human resources and business consulting, they combine deep technical capability with practical, real world insight.
The Opportunity.
As a Senior Workplace/Industrial Relations Consultant, you will work directly with business owners, executives and employee representatives across the electrotechnology, construction and trade industries.
You’ll be trusted as a senior adviser on complex industrial matters while also playing a meaningful role in the growth of a specialist consultancy in its early stages. This role offers genuine autonomy, exposure to high level work, and the opportunity to help shape service offerings, client relationships and internal processes.
It’s ideally suited to someone who values influence, professional credibility and the opportunity to build something meaningful.
Why This Opportunity?
- Ground floor opportunity in a small and expanding start up business.
- Direct access to, and mentorship from, leaders with decades of experience working within the blue collar industry.
- A rare environment where legal, workplace relations and trades expertise intersect.
- Broad, meaningful work across complex and high impact matters.
- The chance to shape how the business operates, not just deliver advice.
- A professional, values driven culture that respects expertise, independence and sound judgement.
- Act as a first point of contact for advice on workplace relations legislation, Modern Awards, Enterprise Agreements and industrial instruments.
- Develop, negotiate, renew and terminate Enterprise Agreements and collective contracts.
- Facilitate negotiations with unions and resolve disputes and grievances.
- Represent and guide employers through Fair Work Commission matters, including unfair dismissal claims and conciliations.
- Conduct underpayment calculations and support resolution.
- Provide proactive advice to mitigate industrial risk.
- Support restructuring, redundancies, transfers of business and other change initiatives.
- Develop and implement workplace relations policies, procedures and training.
- You will be a confident, credible and pragmatic Workplace Relations professional with:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Law or a related field.
- Proven experience in a workplace or industrial relations environment.
- Demonstrated experience with Enterprise Agreements, Modern Awards and Fair Work Commission proceedings.
- Strong negotiation, conflict resolution and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- A practical mindset and the ability to balance compliance, commercial realities and people outcomes.
If you’re looking for a senior role where you can apply your expertise at a high level, influence outcomes and help build a consultancy from the ground up, this opportunity offers something genuinely different. If this opportunity sounds like you please apply, if you're unsure please reach Daniel Dent on 0414 605 978 for a confidential chat.